Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas,...

President Barack Obama tries to learn from his predecessors’ mistakes, and some see his fast, wide-ranging response to the swine flu threat as a lesson learned...

Experts who studied flooding brought on by Hurricane Katrina say New Orleans could be made safer by elevating more homes, building stronger levees and abandoning...

Add Dan Aykroyd’s name to the list of celebrities helping New Orleans rebuild neighborhoods destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

The president’s nominee to lead the nation’s disaster response agency said he will hold the agency to a much higher standard than how it demonstrated in the...

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has boosted its bond rating for the city of New Orleans to investment grade, significant for the city as it continues...

Lucille Franz lost her home and her sister in the flooding that follwed Hurricane Katrina. She blames the Army Corps of Engineers.

For the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 left New Orleans a quagmire of flooded streets and smashed homes, the city’s population has risen above 300,000...

A Louisiana company is selling quaint cottages at rock bottom prices, but there’s a catch _ they were originally built as temporary housing for Mississippi...

Jurors shouldn’t have awarded money to a south Louisiana couple for their allegation that an insurance company acted in bad faith when it denied their homeowner...

George Washington Carver High School _ a collection of prefabricated buildings that sprang up amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina _ has always been a fertile...

A helicopter tour Friday of Mississippi’s coast convinced Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the area appears to be on a faster track to recovery...

Disturbed by what they saw on a bus ride through a city still bearing Hurricane Katrina’s scars, two members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet pledged...

Two members of President Barack Obama’s cabinet got a firsthand look Thursday at the progress that’s been made since Hurricane Katrina _ and the work that...

Pope Benedict XVI has formally rescinded the promotion of an ultraconservative priest who came under fire for suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane...

Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still...

Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still...

President Barack Obama said Friday that Gulf Coast residents still struggling to rebuild three years after Hurricane Katrina “have not always received the support...

A judge incorrectly dismissed several insurance companies from a lawsuit accusing insurers of overbilling the federal government for Hurricane Katrina’s flood...

A conservative pastor who suggested God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina expressed relief Monday after passing up a papal promotion that had sparked an...